Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-04

20 acres; John Talbot, 80 acres; Chas. Boyer,
IS acres; Joseph Routier, $50 acres. The
Natoma Company have nearly 1000 acres
of vineyards. These are only few of the
orchardists and vinyardists in this district
There are many others equally as large and
as worthy Of mention as those named.
TIE BRIGHTON, FLoRIN AND ELK GROVE
DISTRICT
Extends from Brighton 10 Gait, beyond
Elk Grove, a distance of twenty miles in
length and two or three miles in width.
There are some of the best orchards and
vineyards in this district to be found in
the Sacramento valley. These are mostly
on small tracts of land, and demonstrate
most thoroughly and completely the fact
that family can make a good living and
have all the comforts and most of the
luxuries of life from twenty acres of land.
This district also demonstrates that
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND PICTURESQUE
HOMES,
Embowered in groves of semi-tropical trees
and embarked with fragrant and many
colored flowers, can be made on these plains
In this district are many families culti-
vating only small fruits-strawberries,
raspberries and blackberries-and they re-
ceive good income from five to ten acres
of those small fruits. The home-seeker
has only TO visit what is known as Straw
berry ridge, three miles from this city, to
be convinced of this fact. In this belt of
country, from Brighton to Elk Grove,
there is every kind OF tree fruit and vine
growing to perfection.
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Extends from this city down the river for
40 miles. The area in vines and fruit trees
in this district is very large, and embraces
some fine and extensive orchards and vine
yards.
A few only of them can be mentioned
| here, with something near the acres in
fruits and vines. Robert Gourly has 80
acres in trees and vines; Mrs Moore, 35
acres; William Johnston, 200 acres; D.
t. Lupton, 80 acres; l. Bryan, 80 acres
| j. Whitcomb, 40 acres; DIR. n. Williams,
| 80 acres; Mrs. Cannon, so acres; Mrs.
| Pynn, 40 acres; d. Osborn, $50 acres
| Dwight Hollister, $50 acres. Sol. Runyon
has an orchard with more than two miles
river front, and ships from 25,000 to 40, 900
baskets Of peaches each year.
| NGMbEhl-flSo sCCit OhChAkDS.
There are hundred or more Just as fine
orchards as those mentioned in this dis
trict The amount of fruit raised and
shipped from this district is immense.
There are four or FIVE steamers engaged in
| this fruit trade during the season. One
steamer brings fruit to this city daily, and
four that bring fruit here and carry it to
| the Bay. These are the proportions which
! the growing of deciduous fruit have as
| sumed in Sacramento county, and il
is still in its infancy. There are tens Of
thousands OF acres of good land well
| adapted to this industry.
CITRUS FRUITS
Are grown in ali parts of the county. In
this city alone there are 1000 bearing
orange and lemon trees, and quarter of a
century has proven that these fruits can
be grown as well here as in any citrus
countries in the world There is no doubt
that this branch of fruit-growing is to
have great growth and expansion in the
future.
| VEGETABLE PRODUCTION.
Want of space forbids more than briei
notice of this industry. The past year has
seen immense shipments of vegetables from
| this section 10 all parts of the East as fan
as Chicago and New Orleans. Last year
| the shipments were not more than one
half as large as for the first six months OF
this year. For the last period named they
have reached
NEARLY EIGHT MILLION POUNDS,
And for the year are expected TO reach
fifteen million pounds There is hardly ;
section OF even the rich Missouri anc
Mississippi valleys but what takes many
carload lots of California vegetables. They
are now going forward in trainload lots as
far East as Chicago. 1t now looks as
| though there is 10 be no limit 10 these
shipments of vegetables East.
Last year ". r. Strong Il Co. shipped
l60 carloads of fruit and 136 carloads OF
vegetables, and their shipments promise
to be still heavier this season. Gregory &
Barnes shipped about 800 carloads of fruit
and vegetables equally divided. c. w
Reed shipped nearly so carloads of fruit
| and there are other large shippers in the
city.
There is still room for thousands oi
families in this county in every branch OF
agriculture, and they will find every ad-
vantage offered here, and their fruits and
products when grown are at the great re-
ceiving and shipping center of the coast
for all the markets of the East, and which
fact makes this vicinity one of the most
available and desirable for all thrifty
newcomers seeking advantageous location
! for settlement.